. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 31—Delaware of Art. George York City. Metropolitan. FiQ. 32—Connie Gilchrist. Whistler. Metropolitan Museum ofArt. New York City. NEW YORK CITY yy is one of Whistlers rare examples of a figurein motion. Connie Gilchrist was a populardancer at the Gaiety in London in 1876. She isrepresented as on the stage with a skippingrope. Whistler has caught her just as shewill be off in an instant, as light as a feather,and under the gleaming footlights her mellowbrownish-yellow costume will shimmer andtwinkle like a butterfly in the sun. A
. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 31—Delaware of Art. George York City. Metropolitan. FiQ. 32—Connie Gilchrist. Whistler. Metropolitan Museum ofArt. New York City. NEW YORK CITY yy is one of Whistlers rare examples of a figurein motion. Connie Gilchrist was a populardancer at the Gaiety in London in 1876. She isrepresented as on the stage with a skippingrope. Whistler has caught her just as shewill be off in an instant, as light as a feather,and under the gleaming footlights her mellowbrownish-yellow costume will shimmer andtwinkle like a butterfly in the sun. A colorpoem the painting certainly is! It reminds usof the Jersey meadows in the fall when thegrasses and sedges are flaunting their featherytops, catching every golden ray until they viewith the topaz in gradation of color. Possi-bly the charm of the color harmony in thispainting is enhanced by the Lady in may be that the hanging committee wereplaying into the hands of Whistler and Alex-ander—one of the comforts of this museumis that few of the pictures are screaming ateach other. Now turn around an
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